Hello again, I'm Warren Alney.

We'll be talking today about the 25th Amendment, the most recent addition to the Constitution.

It allows for the removal of a president for a variety of reasons.

In 2017, a few top officials of the Justice Department talked about possibly invoking it to remove President Trump.

First, the recent background, then a discussion of the 25th Amendment and presidential power.

Last year, President Trump fired Andrew McCabe as acting head of the FBI. McCabe had replaced James Comey, who was fired before him.

This week, McCabe made headlines, talking about his new book titled The Threat.

It describes the official suspicion that President Trump's relations with Russia might endanger

national security.

Here's McCabe, telling 60 minutes this week about an incident that caused them concern.

The president launched into several unrelated diatribes.

One of those was commenting on the recent missile launches by the government of North Korea.

And essentially the president said he did not believe that the North Koreans had the capability

to hit us here with ballistic missiles in the United States.

And he did not believe that because President Putin had told him they did not.

President Putin had told him that the North Koreans don't actually have those missiles.

Intelligence officials in the briefing responded that that was not consistent with any of the

intelligence our government possesses, to which the president replied, I don't care, I believe Putin.

That's one example of why McCabe says he and others feared the president might have allegiance

to a hostile foreign power. They wondered if that had something to do with James Comey being

fired as head of the FBI. Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein was in the process of naming Robert Mueller as a

special prosecutor, and McCabe says Rosenstein suggested wearing a listening device in conversations

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